I don't know what is causing your IRQ... errors, but I can share with
you my symptoms when a SCSI hard disk controller was going bad. My
system did not blue screen, but it did freeze. Sometimes it would come
back, and at other times I had to press the reset button. What I am
telling you is that your hard disk is probably not at fault. It sounds
more like a video driver or something like that got corrupted. Others
may have a different opinion, but this is my experience to share.

Peter
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Peter Shkabara - Computer Science Instructor
Columbia College - 11600 Columbia College Drive - Sonora, CA 95370
(209) 588-5156 - [log in to unmask] - http://gocolumbia.org/pesh



-----Original Message-----
For the past two weeks, our WinXP PC has been crashing with the
IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR EQUAL bug. It lists with several problems, the only one
I could catch was USBPORT.SYS --Others include the odd numbers/letters
files.

It has gotten so out of hand (Crashing when idle, when certain tasks are
done) we decided to reformat the drive with the OS and programs. (We
have two HDs, other is for my image files.) We're now running into the
same problem again while installing! Page faults or the IRQL... We
uninstalled all our SCSIs, cards, equipment etc except the sound card,
video card, and the CD-ROMs, it still crashes. Does this mean another
part of our hardware is faulty? I think it may be the HD or memory...

Tracy and Ralph Williams

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